the Whitlams. The album was nominated for Best Independent Release at the ARIA Music Awards of 1998. The group's members turned to other projects including the W Minc Productions' various artists' compilation album, Where Joy Kills Sorrow (1997), which was produced by Lee and included Dawson and Kakulas playing on several tracks, Snarski collaborated with Matt Walker on "If You Don't Want My Love". Box' band, the Disappointments, released an album, Wet Your Beak, which included Halstead on vocals. After a respite the Blackeyed Susans reconvened in August 1998 to record another EP, La Mascara, which was released in November. According to McFarlane, "In keeping with the theme of Mexican masked wrestlers, the band was billed on cover as 'las Blackeyed Susans'." Its five tracks include "Oh Yeah, Oh Yeah, Oh No" and "To Skin a Man". Both received airplay on Triple J's and other Australian youth orientated stations. A video for "To Skin a Man" was commissioned: it was produced and directed by Adam Kyle and Holly Shorland, depicting images of flesh and blood which were too much for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), where it was screened only in black and white. A tour ensued through the summer and well into 1999. In February 1999 their co-founder, David McComb, died at his Northcote home. In the 1990s his ill health resulted in a heart transplant in 1995. From May to July 1999 the Blackeyed Susans prepared thirteen songs on a four-track machine in the living room of Snarski's flat. Their proposed album, Shangri-La, was due to be recorded and released in the next year. However, in May 2000, the group left their record company, MDS, after it was bought out by Festival Records, consequently Shangri-La was delayed until July 2003. In April 2001 the group issued a new album, Dedicated to the Ones We Love, on their own label, Teardrop Records, which was distributed through Shock Records. It was co-produced by Lee and the group. The record was a tribute to the influences and aspirations of the band – including songs from Presley, Frank Sinatra, Big Star, and the Velvet Underground. It was well received by the public and lauded by critics, a national tour followed until the end of the year. Undercover News Hector the Rock Dog felt the album was full "of covers and not really aiming at any particular era. This one if full of